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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:56:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why I am opposed to a Standards Ghetto
Message-ID:  <200210271656.g9RGudeO031350@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200210271213.g9RCDF0p032246@dotar.thuvia.org>
References:  <200210271213.g9RCDF0p032246@dotar.thuvia.org>

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<<On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 12:13:15 GMT, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said:

> Doh.  This is FreeBSD, and I hope we never need a /usr/posix sh.

So why is a small incompatibility in expr(1) so important to you when
the small incompatibilities in sh(1) not?  (As we have already noted,
Solaris has both a twenty-year-old backwards shell and a working POSIX
shell.)

-GAWollman


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